The event was held June 2 at Community Arts of Elmira. Festival youth poets read aloud their award-winning poems to a packed audience of family, friends and community members.

Elmira resident Joe Caparulo read his short story, “Present at the Creation,” and Community Arts youth poet-in-residence Maisey Cadwallader, of Elmira, concluded the reading with a poem she wrote inspired by “Majesties of Sound.”